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October 2003 Archives

FSBO vs Realtors
I recently sold my home. Even knowing what I do about real estate, I used a Realtor. And unless your job is real estate, I’d suggest that you do as well.
October 18, 2003 - 559 words, 63 comments

Popcorn deadline
The last day for popcorn orders is approaching.
October 17, 2003 - 64 words,

BlogSnob
I’ve acquired BlogSnob, an advertising service for Weblogs.
October 15, 2003 - 244 words, 10 comments

Tab Wraps
How to keep CSS tabs from wrapping to multiple lines.
October 10, 2003 - 74 words, 11 comments

Filtered Comments
Content filtering won’t do a thing to prevent comment spam.
October 10, 2003 - 126 words, 8 comments

Off Target
Siemens marketers need to learn plain English.
October 9, 2003 - 52 words, 3 comments

Personal firewall advantages
A NAT router cannot is protect computers on your network from the other computers on your network.
October 9, 2003 - 138 words, 1 comment

NAT is not a firewall
A NAT router simply denies incomming traffic that it doesn’t understand. That’s one function of a firewall, but not the only one.
October 8, 2003 - 442 words, 11 comments

Online Readability
You would think that a newspaper would know something about readability, but the Boston Globe is proving otherwise with their Web site.
October 6, 2003 - 306 words, 11 comments

Spam and Vandals, part 2
My theories about spammers acting like graffiti artists appear to be correct.
October 5, 2003 - 216 words, 5 comments

MT Consulting
If you are using Movable Type on your site, I can help.
October 3, 2003 - 111 words, 1 comment

OSCommerce button set
A replacement set of buttons for OSCommerce
October 3, 2003 - 54 words, 8 comments

Alternate URLs
What happens if someone visits wwe.yoursite.com? Or doesn’t add the www? Will they still find your site?
October 3, 2003 - 142 words, 3 comments

Flash Navigation
As with any tool, you should think carefully about whether Flash is the right tool for your application.
October 2, 2003 - 176 words, 5 comments